Using New Media

for
Teaching & Training
As the use of computing and networking
technologies grows, educators increasingly
incorporate online tools and resources into
their curricula some even replace traditional
classroom interactions with virtual courses
that take place entirely online.
Convergence
Media convergence is a theory in
communications where every mass medium
eventually merges to the point where they
become one medium due to the advent of new
communication technologies.
In fact, today, there is no need for having a
television and a computer separate from each
other, since both are able to do the job of the
other. We also see print media eventually
collaborating with the new media.

Examples: Web TV, E-paper, Mobile Phones
Internet use is increasing at an incredible rate.
Total no. of users More than 2 Billion

Penetration Rate Around 30 %

Growth Rate Around 450%

Amazing Growth
We Must Change
It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
Adapting Organizations are Thriving
The title metaphor conveys the core concept: though a starfish and a spider have
similar shapes, their internal structure is dramatically differenta decapitated
spider inevitably dies, while a starfish can regenerate itself from a single
amputated leg. In the same way, decentralized organizations, like the Internet, the
Apache Indian tribe and Alcoholics Anonymous, are made up of many smaller
units capable of operating, growing and multiplying independently of each other,
making it very difficult for a rival force to control or defeat them.
The New Smart Devices
for Learning
The Future...?
1990: The future is multi-media
2000: The future is the Web
2010: The future is smart mobile
Multimedia
brought the world
into the
classroom...


Multimedia
brought the world
into the
classroom...

Smart
technologies will
take the
classroom into
the world.

www.canada.com
The present speed of
information based on
new technologies has
undermined traditional
expert driven
processes of
knowledge
development and
dissemination.

~ Dave Cormier
www.aaceconnect.org
E-Learning 3.0
1. Distributed (Cloud) Computing
2. Extended Smart Mobile Technology
3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering
4. 3D Visualisation and Interaction
Source: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
We need diversity of
thought in the world to
face the new
challenges.

~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee
www.topnews.in
Web meets World
Mash-up
GPS
QR codes
Camera
Mobile phone
Bar codes
Browser
Projector
Geomapping
Geotagging
Personalised
Ambient
3-D
Video
Navigation
Communication
Haptic
1: The phone app
2: The wearable
images.businessweek.com
Augmented
reality is when
technology
recognises what
you are doing
and then
enhances it.
AR apps add
information to
the world
around us.
Source: www.geeks.co.uk
Layar is a free
application on your
mobile phone which
shows what is
around you by
displaying real time
digital information
on top of reality
through the camera
of your mobile
phone.
www.winandmac.com
As you move
your mobile
phone camera,
so the overlays
change to
represent
information
relevant to the
scene before
you.
truliablog.com
www.guardian.co.uk
Find the nearest metro station...
www.guardian.co.uk
Find the nearest Tube Station...
Augmented
Virtuality is when
you interact with
your computer
using objects in
the physical
world.
paradox2101.fw.hu
blogs.fayobserver.com
Camera
Coloured caps
Coloured caps
Mirror
Projector
Phone
MITs 6
th
Sense Wearable...
...enables you to take
pictures using the framing
gesture
ambient.media.mit.edu
...enables you to take
pictures using the framing
gesture and manipulate
documents with natural
gestures...
ambient.media.mit.edu
chi2009.org
www.labnol.org
...will project onto any surface...
a-r-u-n.com
...including your hand.
a-r-u-n.com
...or your students!
Some possible smart tech uses
Informal, self organised learning
Problem based learning
Group based activities
Outdoor learning
Independent study
Distance learning
Blended learning
pointlessbanter.net
Blogs & Forums
Each faculty should maintain a blog and students must be encouraged to
maintain blogs. There should be a forum where the bloggers can gather
to share information on how to get the best use of the blogs.
The blog can also be used as a platform for personal content
management system. This perspective allows us to think about blogs as
the basis for all sorts of opportunities from faculty web sites to
student e-portfolios.
Online Communities
Community blog sites or Community Hubs should be set up to act as
online notice boards and knowledge creation centres.
Youtube
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share
videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February
2005.

In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65
billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.
Flickr
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and
online community.

In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed
personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host
images that they embed in blogs and social media.
Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and
discovering web bookmarks.

The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by
Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2010, the service claimed more than 5.3
million users and 500 million unique bookmarked URLs.
Podcasts
Podcast can offer a variety of services
designed to offer faculty an easy way to
produce educational podcasts and distribute
them to their students.

These services include hands-on training,
information on locating equipment to borrow
or purchase for producing podcasts,
recommendations of the best practices for
creating pedagogical podcasts, free software
downloads necessary to create podcasts, free
accounts to begin posting podcasts, online
tutorials, and more. In addition, faculty can
also have a secure way to publish course
podcasts.
Wikis
A wiki is a software that allows web users to create a website
together and edit each others pages.

You can visit wetpaint.com which allows (and gives great
examples) of how you can use wikis for class topics and group
presentations.

The teachers and students are going to learn a great deal by
learning these softwares. This is the future of business and
learning, so the more they can learn how to use it, the better.
Video Sharing Sites
Sometimes just reading textual information can become
monotonous. Visually seeing something can be much better
understood than plain text.

There are lots of sites which provide useful video footage
for the preparation of our lesson plan or even for showing
in the classroom.

Youtube.com is probably the most popular video sharing
site but Teachertube.com is a great resource for
educational videos.
Education-Specific Search Tools
If you need to send students to a search tool or if you are looking for
filtered, student friendly sites which have search tools that are more
specific to education, then the following will help.

Yahooligans.com: A categorical search tools that indexes sites
appropriate for students viewing.

KidsClick.com: Another indexed site that is backed by librarians and has
over 600 subjects in which students can search.

TekMom.com: A one stop shop for searching. Contains a variety of
search fields that allow students/teachers to search for a wide range of
topics both in general search tools and subject specific ones.

Bluewebn.com: A site that features many resources for teachers
categorized by subject and activity type.
Teacher Communities
New websites, blogs, applications, software and trends are developed
everyday that you can use to capture students attention, but there is no
way you can teach and keep track of all the new updates at the same
time. Teacher Communities create collaboration and networking which
will be a continuing source of inspiration for new tools.

Teacherlingo.com is a great website for teachers to write helpful
articles for each other.

Teachervision.com This website saves time for teachers and
provides free resources.

Some social networking sites for teachers are
Nextgenteachers.com, Crowdvine.com and ning.com
Modern Day Pen Pals
It is a fact that students in India are less used to technology or
the virtual world than the west.

It is a good idea for a teacher to use the power of the Internet
and start a virtual pen pal project. You can make virtual penpals
and learn about what the students in other countries are
learning, specifically in the context of your subject. This will give
you a new dimension of what the students are learning in the
other part of the world.

This will also give your students a new perspective on everything
from what they are learning to the amazing opportunities they
are given here.

Try World PenPals.com or ePals.com
Some Online Applications
There are some sites online which the teachers can use in
demonstrations, for projects or even in the background for
preparation.

Google Sites (http://sites.google.com/) is a very nice online
application and actually has a classroom as one of its examples.

Have Morse Code translated onto your computer.
(http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm)

HowStuffWorks.com is a very interesting site which searches
anything you are teaching in class and it has an explanation and
videos also.

Twitter is starting a new site for teachers (twitter.com). Twitter is
very popular with teens right now it allows users to follow each
other and post 140 character snippets of what they are doing.
Dipity
It is a free service that allows you to
add multiple social media accounts into
one tracking panel. Dipity watches for
updates in real time and puts them
together in one place. You can view the
aggregation as a timeline with zoom
features, as a flipbook like the iTunes
coverflow, or as a list or map. Each
view allows you a brief overview of the
Tweet, video, news article or image,
and lets you view the full media asset,
provides additional information and
provides sharing features and access
to the original source. You can follow
any profile to receive e-mail updates or
embed the widget in any Website or
Blog with your chosen profile.
Twitterfall
Twitterfall is a Twitter visualization tool that aggregates (pulls in)
Twitter feeds based on a specific keyword or hash tag. When
you enter your search parameters, you instantly can view
conversations on various topics taking place in real time
throughout the world. Each Tweet that is pulled into Twitterfall
pushes the previous one down, creating a virtual waterfall of
communication
Cooliris
Cooliris is a Web-based media aggregator that provides an
interactive browsing experience on both computers and select
mobile devices. It pulls images and video content from sites like
YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook into a streaming wall of content.
To control Cooliris, you can use the slider at the bottom of the
Web application to scroll left or right, or simply grab and drag the
wall to move it. Click on an image to enlarge it or click on a video
to play it. When you are finished, click outside of the grid to
minimize the view.
YouTube Warp
This visualization allows you start with
one YouTube video of your choice and
shows you the related videos as circles
surrounding your video preview.
Rolling over any video preview will
show you its title, user-rating, length of
time and let you play it in context. If
you hover over any of the related
previews, videos relating to that video
pop up. This alternate relationship
browser uses the same tagging
relationship model as the standard
YouTube interface, but allows visitors
to browse in a more organic way. The
videos you may stumble across can
open your eyes to new information in
your interest area.
tgethr :
Tgethr is for Project teams
who need secure email-
based collaboration solution
and useful for families,
friends, and clubs who dont
need the overhead of more
complicated solutions. This is
also best for remotely located
people who still use email as
a primary collaboration
mechanism. With tgethr all
correspondence over the web
and email can be safely
encrypted.
Some On-line tools
Lockbin:
Lockbin is a free service for sending private email messages. You
can use it to send things like credit card information or confidential
information.
Some On-line tools
EmailTheWeb:
EmailTheWeb is the only web-based service that allows you to
email any web page to any one. The entire web page is emailed in
a flash and is captured as it is now. Your recipient will see the
same exact page as you.
Some On-line tools
Free login to any site:
This service is made for you to save your time on registration for
many sites. You can not register at all sites, so just type the name
of site for which you need to enter login and password and click
Get.
Some On-line tools
Temporary Inbox:
A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which doesnt
require registration and can be used to avoid spam. Use this email
address in forums, lotteries and other sites which you are just
browsing through. The spammers will never find out your private
email address. You can also use their forwarding email address to
register at websites/boards/lotteries and so on.
Some On-line tools
AyeNotes:
AyeNotes revolutionizes notetaking, using templates to
automatically convert shorthand entries into full, readable notes.
With AyeNotes, you can quickly take notes online and access
them everywhere.
Some On-line tools
Respelt:
Respelt is a free online spell checker with a powerful feature set. It
help you spell check your documents, web pages and even RSS
feeds.
Some On-line tools
PDF to Excel & PDF to Word:

You can use PDF to Excel or Word to quickly and easily create
highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and
spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice,
Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it
entirely free.
Some On-line tools
OpenOffice:
OpenOffice.org is both a product and an open-source project. It
works just like MS Office and can its files also. The
OpenOffice.org project is primarily sponsored by Oracle, which is
the primary contributor of code to the project. Over 500,000
peopleunaffiliated individuals, business and government
employees, and students from nearly every curve of the globe
have joined the project with the aim of creating the best possible
office suite that all can use. Their work as a community is both
invaluable and practical: people use what the community does.
This is the essence of an open source community.
Some On-line tools
DoPDF:
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial
use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the
"Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you
can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents
or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
Some On-line tools
DialMyCalls:
DialMyCalls lets everyone tap
into the power of sending
voice messages out to entire
phone lists in seconds. No
messing around with
expensive equipment or
calling servers. You can use
DialMyCalls to send group
announcements to your
company staff. You can use
their free service and send 1
group call per day to 25
people or less.
Some On-line tools
pleasenotify.me:
pleasenotify.me is a
simple, free service to let
you send tasks to people,
and be notified when
theyre done. You can use
the form to email someone
a task. If they dont mark it
complete by the time you
specify, both of you will be
notified. Youll both be
reminded daily until its
finally completed. Its the
simplest project
management imaginable.
Some On-line tools
Deferred Sender:
In our busy schedule, its very tough for us to remember things that
we need to do in future to perform our different tasks. Deferred
Sender is a free service that allows you to schedule emails from
any email application or website to be sent in the future. You can
prepare an appointments, reminders for meetings and other
important events.
Some On-line tools
Syncplicity:
Syncplicity is effortless synchronization, backup, and sharing.
Install it on one computer and all your important documents,
photos, and music are backed up online, complete with remote
access and history. If you are working on a presentation at home,
hit save, and you can go and work on it in the office or wherever
you are. With sharing, its very easy to collaborate with colleagues
or to share your high-res photos with your friends.
Some On-line tools
Dropbox:
Dropbox allows you to sync files online and across your
computers automatically. Sync files of any size or type.
Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected.
Work on files in your Dropbox even if you're offline. Your changes
sync once your computer has an Internet connection again.
Dropbox transfers will correctly resume where they left off if the
connection drops.
Efficient sync - only the pieces of a file that changed (not the
whole file) are synced. This saves you time. Doesn't hog your
Internet connection. You can manually set bandwidth limits.
Shared folders allow several people to collaborate on a set of
files. You can see other people's changes instantly. A "Public"
folder that lets you link directly to files in your Dropbox.
Some On-line tools
Easy Upload
The easiest way to get your files online with automatic backup
Web Desktop
3 GB of free online storage. Organize and share your photo and
music albums.
Mobile
Mobile access to your online files from anywhere.

Some On-line tools
CloudME
Ninite:
When we get a
new machine
or do a
reformat of
your existing
computer, the
first thing we
do is to install
the most
common
software.
Some On-line tools
Lovely Charts:
Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows
you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts,
sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more With
Lovely Chartss extremely simple and intuitive dragn drop drawing
mechanism, youll be able to focus on what really matters. You
wont have to draw boxes and arrows, you wont have to worry
about what symbol to use.
Some On-line tools
Mygazines.com:
Mygazines is an easy to use web based digital publishing
software that empowers companies to deliver content to their
target audience. As a content publisher, you can distribute, track
and analyze content that is being read from any web enabled
device be it a desktop PC, MAC, smartphone, iOS devices,
Tablet computers, iPads and so on. It works like this you create
your content (lets say a PDF document) and submit it to the
Mygazines application. Mygazines takes that file and creates an
engaging, attractive and a universally accessible experience.
Some On-line tools
PrintWhatYouLike:
Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads,
empty space and other junk you dont want? PrintWhatYouLike is
a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing
in seconds.
Some On-line tools
IdentyMe:
IdentyMe is a service for making of virtual business cards. You
can collect all your contacts in one place and create a portfolio. It
will helps you share information with new people, find new friends
and business partners.
Some On-line tools
ShowDocument:
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully
synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and
simple way to share a document with other people at the same
time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a
free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial
desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and
during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in
addition to a text box tool and eraser.
Some On-line tools
TitanPad:
TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously. While
working on this app, you may do infinite undo and everyone gets
their own color.
Some On-line tools
Dial2Do:
Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and
speaking. You can use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages,
record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates
to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite
internet content. Its easy and hands-free.
Some On-line tools
Dushare:
dushare is a simple direct file-file-transfer service. It makes
sending unlimited file sizes between two people as simple as
clicking a link. You can send you files to your peers directly (P2P)
with no server for upload/download.
Some On-line tools
senduit:
This is a very good file hosting website that can provide us as
much as possible useful features. Senduit is one of the great file
hosting service. This is a free service that allows you to upload up
to 100MB files and then send a link to your friends or relative to
have them download it.
Some On-line tools
Yousendit:
YouSendIt is the most popular and secure online file sharing
software that allows you to easily send large files and email
attachments. One can send large files via email and FTP. This is
the most widely used solution for sending, receiving and tracking
large files.
Some On-line tools
Timeglider:
TimeGlider is a data-driven interactive timeline application built on
the (Adobe) Flash platform. You can grab the timeline and drag it
left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or
just hours. TimeGlider allows you to create event-spans so that
you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based,
TimeGlider lets you collaborate and share easily.
Some On-line tools
Colorhat:
Colorhat is currently a time management and time tracking
software. Whether you are a developer, designer, teacher,
student, engineer, or just a person who wants to keep track of
your training sessions or hobbies, You can use Colorhat.
Some On-line tools
SmartPointment:
SmartPointment is a simple but effective way to schedule
appointments online. With this, You can let your customers
schedule appointments at their convenience. SmartPointment
analytics give you the insight you need so you can direct your
efforts into what has the most impact on your business.
Some On-line tools
Onyaka:
Onyaka is an online time
planning software service that
takes care of staff scheduling.
Onyaka provides you with easy
to use staff scheduling software,
with no downloads, no expensive
license fees, and no installation
hassle. It has a simple drag and
drop interface and you can use
all of the features absolutely free.
As Onyaka is online application
thats why you can use it from
everywhere without any
restriction on standard web
browser.
Some On-line tools
Checkvist:
With Checkvist you can easily work with multiple outlines or
hierarchical to-do lists. Extensive use of keyboard navigation and
shortcuts allows you to create an outline exactly with your typing
speed.
Some On-line tools
Zapproved:
Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-
making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution
that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to
improve the process of building consensus.
Some On-line tools
Live Mesh:
Many of you might be using multiple computers that are located
on different places. With Live Mesh, you can synchronize, share
and access files with all of your devices, like your work computer,
your home laptop, your Mac, your mobile phone devices. so you
always have the updated copy of your files. Its very simple and
easy that you can now access your files from any device or from
the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever
someone changes a file. The best of all this service is powered by
Microsoft and absolutely free for everyone.
Some On-line tools
J oin.me:
Join.me is an impromptu meeting space that happens wherever,
whenever. Its getting a second or third pair of eyes on your
presentation from across the hall or across the continent. Its
sharing your screen instantly with anyone or everyone to get stuff
done, quickly.
Some On-line tools
DimDim and Teamviewer:
DimDim and Teamviewer are free web conferencing service
where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat,
talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download
required for attendees.
Some On-line tools
vyew:
Vyew is a new and powerful platform for real-time and always-on
interaction between people and connect. Vyews clear-view
workspaces enable a transparent collaboration flow with content.
Review the past, work together in the present and prepare for the
future.
Some On-line tools
WiZiQ:
WiZiQ is a web-based platform for anyone and everyone who
wants to teach and learn live, online. Teachers and students use
WiZiQ for its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, to create and share
online educational content and tests, and to connect with persons
having similar subject interests.
Some On-line tools